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Show BALLPLAYERS' 1 SlfflJS 10 BE , INVESTIGATED, i CHICAGO. Dec. 12 The status, of baseball players who deserted thoir clubs last season to join clubs in shipyard ship-yard leagues, will be one of the several interesting problems up for settlement at the annual meeting of the club owners own-ers of the American league here today. While President Ban Johnson would give no Intimation as to the tenor of the resolution dealing with the shipyard ship-yard players, it was said the offending offend-ing players will be barred from tho league. The length of the 1919 season, the opening date and the player limit for each team uro other questions to bu considered, as well as the personnel of the national baseball commission. The schedule question probably will have to be settled at a joint conference confer-ence of the two major leagues. The club owners apparently favor the "spring training trip as usual," despite tho reports that tho National leaguers were inclined to curtail or omit them entirely. Two American league clubs Boston and Cleveland-are Cleveland-are negotiating with tho Chicago club to make a spring tour to California. Retrenchment will bo the po)icy of the 1919 campaign, President Johnson said. Although a majority of the club owners do not favor the plan to reduce the player limit, the clubs will not carry any players that are not absolutely abso-lutely necessary and the trainers in all probability will be left at home. no |